Nothing but the effects of dust and vapor in the thin skin of air

So in the Buffy comics Giles died, and got resurrected as a twelve year old, which is boring because Giles was clearly a lot more fun as a teenager. Also Spike and Buffy are a sweet couple, which has killed all the chemistry in their relationship, so that was a poor choice too.

And Buzzfeed is full of Buffy stuff, so I'm craving a little something.

Xander isn't meant to be an arsehole, he just hates Spike and is worried about Giles.

( Buffy was my second ever fandom )

THe recent rumours about Omnific (unlikely to be true, but interesting to see its origins dragged back into the limelight) and this article on turning fanfic into original have me thinking about the process.

So, mental game. What if I turned Caffiene & Saccharine into original fic? It's the best known and probably one of my better written, so it's got a built in audience.

( Let's call it... Coffee and Two Sweetners )

All well and good, but. What happens after it's published and I've promoted it here and fans of C&S go and read it? What if one of them tells people it's basically the same as C&S on the fundamental levels? I might have deleted C&S, but there's all sort of quirks to the internet and I know fans have downloaded and saved it before.

What happens when my publisher realises I've essentially used up first rights for this story? Changing names and settings isn't enough to change that fact, and the plot is essentially unchanged. The story has already been available for free online.

Somehow, I don't think my publisher would be very happy. Do you? And that, really, is the essence of the problem with filing the serial numbers off. Omnific may invite it, but there's a reason other publishers don't.

::pouts:: not at pub. On the plus side, extended this. Also, have awesome hair.

( if I ever post something that didn't start in a comment I'll do a proper fic header. Until that day, I can't be arsed )

Now with additional Avon!Gerard fic

You win this time apiphile!

Title: Nice Guy
Fandom: Bandom! MCR, FOB
Pairing: Gen. It was going to be Andy/Ray, but I had an interview and couldn't afford to keep writing that long.
Rating: PG. Naughty Language
Disclaimer: makes no actual difference under UK IP law, but I think RPF might actually fall under libel/slander (I can never remember which is which). So, basically, this never happened, and I'm not saying it did, and it's all in my head. And now yours.

This is sort of set during the Summer Of Like, but I actually have no idea about what order canon really happens in, so it's a bit mushed together.

( Vegan Muffins )

I have been writing Roman slash. There's Horace/Virgil/Propertius (where Propertius is Captain Jack Harkness, since that's the point of sodomy_central) and Horace/Virgil. The two fics aren't related, except in theme. There's nothing too explicit in either, but lots of reference to Roman debauchery and Roman poets' physiques.

His body moved on one plane only, shoulders first, hips following that fraction of a second afterwards. Slink left, slink right. Eyes closed. The lights began to strobe, blue, and he flickered like an old film. They went out, came back on; he was gone.

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It grew dark behind her eyes - she let her eyelids bat a few times to make certain of which light was fading - and she fell, graceless, backwards. The water was cold, but that was alright: she was losing sensation anyway. In enveloped her, slower, thicker, more viscious, than it ought to be. It folded over her in navy waves, and she was gone.

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Request something. Anything. I will write. Please?

I think I just drowned in reviews and comments for Caff&Sacc. Whee! ^_^ I've been trying adn failing to write X-men for a while, so it's good to finally find a pairing that motivates me to actually finish fics. (hello new flist people! I assume this is where you came in?)

Sophie's aprty last night was great fun. Met people I hadn't seen for ages and got a few email addresses (less forwards than asking for numbers, I find). Chatted to an obsessive Harry Potter fan, who I must now send website addresses to, a guy I haven't seen since junior school and who's name I forgot the minute I left the building, a girl I would have invited to my birthday except she's the one with a history with Blanchard and I've kinda badmouthed her already to people (she's really nice, but a compulsive liar), and to Sophie's boyfriend. He definitely gets the thumbs up. Great hair (all spiky and eighties!), really long eyelashes, hilarious anecdotes and adores Sophie. I give him my best-friend-of-fourteen-years seal of approval.

Been having randomdreams recently. Night before last it was a combination of global warming and my work, which terrified me because Global warming always does. Nightmares that relate to the end of the world always disturb me. The fact Japan was blowing itself up to help compensate, or something, was also a bit odd. And last night I dreamt about people I know think were at Sophie's party, though in the dream i didn't realise it. I was drunk (in hte dream) and very silly, and pulled one of them. Amused me.

I have spent three hours online today, not counting time in IT. This is bad. It's because nobody's here! It was just me and Hearn at lunch, so I, uh, abandoned him...

( Fanfic! HP )

That didn't come out as well as I hoped it would. Oh well. LJ fics are never my forte.

( fanfic writers meme )

I really want to go shoppping, but most of the shops will be closed today. Damn. Mad urge quashed.

Something I have just learnt:
Alexander the Great was short, left-handed, epileptic and bisexual. He also dyed his hair with saffron, to make it reddish.
This is going to get worked into a fic, some how. If not Tybalt, then Schuldig. Some bisexual redhead, who i can get away with claiming is left-handed.

I wanted to write Skibalt, so i figured I'd give it a shot. It morphed through several different plot bunnies. I may take another plot bunny in as a sequel. Or maybe just write another fic.

You know, once you start writing BMB (all characters of which belong to K Sandra Fuhr - you didn't spot a missing disclaimer, honest, this was here all along) fics they suddenly get much easier. I've been trying and failing for ages, and suddenly two on two consecutive days. Woo!

( Of Mists and Melancholy fruitlessness )

There may be a sequel. Maybe not. Depends. Hmm. Changing the ending of this.

We have a very large box of Krispie Kremy Donuts downstairs, american style jobs. Aside from the obvious difference in being Crispy and being Cremey (now htere's a word I'll never figure out how to spell), if they aliterate already why changed the Cs to Ks? Huh?

I just noticed I had 'cockrack' instead of 'coatrack'. Sometmes I worry about my typos...